Shakespeare Terms

3. - two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene.
4. - a play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
6. - a writer or speakers says one thing, but really means something different.
7. - event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period.
10. - humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot.
11. - words that are spoken by a character in a play to an audience or to another character but that are not supposed to be overheard by others onstage.
15. - a speech by one character in a play.
17. - poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter; each line of poetry contains 5 iambs, or metrical feet, that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
18. - a group who says things at the same time.
20. - the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know

1. - a short introduction in the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot.
2. - fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in a iambic pentameter.
5. - character who changes as a result of a story's event.
8. - direct, unadorned from a language, written or spoken, in ordinary use.
9. - an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud.
12. - a story written to be acted for an audience.
13. - character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the quality of 2 characters this ways.
14. - a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings.
16. - a combination of contradictory terms.
19. - character who does not change much in the course of a story.